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Christ and a flame of knowledge
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Judea and Samaria, and to the ends
of the earth."
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NEWS BRIEFS
DEAN OF THE CHAPEL
HOLDS SPECIAL
CEREMONY IN CHAPEL
3 FEBRUARY 2014
Dean of the Chapel Dr. Jim Lo came up
with a very special way to demonstrate
the beauty of marriage for the students
of IWU's residential campus: he and
his wife, Roxene, renewed their vows
in chapel on February 3. It was part of
a lesson on how the love, faithfulness
and commitment of matrimony can be
an avenue to increase holiness in the
Christian life. Jim and Roxene Lo have
been married for 40 years.
GRADS RECEIVE FREE
AIRLINE FLIGHT AT
COMMENCEMENT
14 DECEMBER 2013
Delta Airlines President Ed Bastian
delivered an inspiring commencement
address at both December graduation
ceremonies. A random drawing was
held and awarded graduates Stephanie
Chambliss and Lauren Paige Miller each
two tickets to any destination in the
world serviced by Delta Airlines.
INAUGURAL CONFERENCE
ON CLERGY WELLNESS
DEBUTED AT IWU
In partnership with The Wesleyan
Church, Indiana Wesleyan University
hosted its first conference on clergy
wellness, "Flourishing in Pastoral
Ministry," on the main Marion campus
on October 11. This interdisciplinary
conference was a rare and significant
opportunity to call together scholars
and leaders from a variety of fields
across the church to explore the best
practices, systems and supports for
clergy health and well being.
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A WESLEYAN AGAINST
APARTHEID
South African pastor Wayne Smith '93
remembers his days opposing racism.
IWU SOCIETY OF PHYSICS
STUDENTS RECEIVES
HONOR
When Wayne Smith
wrote a thesis for
IWU’s M.A. degree
in ministry, calling
for Christians to
actively resist evil social
systems, he wasn't posing
an idle academic notion. He wrote from
experience.
The Society of Physics Students
selected the IWU Chapter of the
Society of Physics Students as
an Outstanding SPS Chapter.
According to the national SPS office,
"The ‘outstanding’ designation is
a notable accomplishment--less
than 10% of the SPS chapters are so
honored, an overall average of about
one per state.”
DECEMBER
COMMENCEMENT REVIEW
14 DECEMBER 2013
Degrees were awarded to 1,820
people on December 14 at the final
commencement exercises of 2013
in the Chapel Auditorium on the
main Marion campus. The university
awarded a posthumous master of
business administration degree to
Stephanie McCowan. Her sister, Tori
Murphy, accepted the degree on
her behalf, with McCowan’s family in
attendance.
"If Christians are going to do as Jesus did,
and do what Jesus said, then they must
love what Jesus loved, challenge what
Jesus challenged, and hate what Jesus
hated," Smith wrote in 1993.
IWU AND HOUGHTON
EXPLORE HISTORIC
PARTNERSHIP
19 NOVEMBER 2013
As a 20-something Wesleyan pastor in the
late ‘80s and early ‘90s, Smith lived that
creed in one of the most divided cities on
Earth: Pretoria, capital of South Africa's
white-supremacist apartheid government.
A historic partnership between IWU
and Houghton College has laid the
foundation allowing each institution
to learn from the other’s expertise in
key areas of higher education. IWU
President David Wright and Houghton
President Shirley Mullen signed a
memorandum of understanding
in November at Wesleyan Church
Headquarters in Fishers, IN. This is the
first such agreement between higher
learning institutions owned by The
Wesleyan Church.
Smith recalls one incident when he
saw campaign posters around his
neighborhood urging white people to
vote to maintain the apartheid system “for
Christianity’s sake.” That didn’t ring true to
Smith: “In an act of social defiance, I went
and ripped all of those posters off of the
trees and the posts that they were on,” he
said.
“I was as convinced then as I am now that
racism was opposed to Christianity,” said
Smith, a white South African native to the
city of Johannesburg.
times when we had joint meetings in each
other’s communities, in spite of what the
law said,” recalled Smith.
As pastor of Garsfontein Wesleyan Church
in Pretoria, Smith had the chance to admit
the first black student to the church’s allwhite preschool after a change in South
African law.
His parents and Bible school teachers
made it clear that racism was wrong, but
he says he didn’t really understand the
horror of apartheid until later.
“The older I grew and the more mature
I became, I recognized how wicked
the apartheid system was. I learned of
atrocities that were committed by both
the government and officials, if not
actively, at least turning a blind eye,” he
recalled in 2013. “I learned, some of it
pretty firsthand, in the military, of some
of the stuff the military was doing…It was
a ‘we’/white army against ‘them,’ the
black community, and that bothered me
intensely,” he said.
“I’ll never forget the morning that this little
boy started,” he said. One staff member
resigned immediately. Several parents and
employees protested, but Smith stood
firm. "This kid meets our qualifications,
they applied to come to the school, and
we're going to admit them like any other
kid," he told them.
Though the Wesleyan Methodist Church of
South Africa opposed South Africa’s racial
segregation, as did most Wesleyans Smith
knew, the church maintained mostlyseparate white and black arms until the
mid-1990s.
Smith is now the principal of the Master’s
Academy, a Christian school in Vero Beach,
FL. He continues to believe that opposition
to evil systems, rooted in the Gospel and
not in social politics, is still a component of
Christian ministry.
“We have to be careful that our preaching,
our teaching and the stances that we take
socially are firmly grounded in Scripture,”
he said.
“As Christians and as pastors we followed
the law as best we could, but there were
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he college born inside the "Triangle"
formed by Washington, Harmon and 43rd
streets on the south side of Marion, IN,
has blossomed into a global university
with nearly 15,000 students scattered
across the surface of the earth. The name we have
proudly carried for 25 academic years is now
known and respected on all seven continents.
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Marion College is the foundation for everything
that we accomplish, and we can never take a step
forward without remembering who we are and
where we have been. But the promise encoded in the
name we use today, "Indiana Wesleyan University,"
points the way to our future. The words of Christ
to his disciples, just prior to His ascension, seem
to fit the IWU story: "But you will receive power
when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will
be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and
Samaria, and to the ends of the earth."
A GLOBAL UNIVERSITY
25 YEARS OF IWU
Twenty-five years ago this past summer, a campus full of Marion
College Titans dispersed for the last time. They would come back that
fall as Indiana Wesleyan University Wildcats.
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I N DI A N A
WES LEYAN
Marion, Grant County, IN: this is our "Jerusalem, Judea and
Samaria." Over the past 25 years, our relationship with our
Midwestern homeland has flourished in ways we never could
have imagined in 1988.
We are proud of our home denomination. But one does not
have to be a member of The Wesleyan Church to believe
in Wesleyan values. Wesleyans stand for holiness,
both personal holiness and the growth of a holy
community. Wesleyans stand for action, to
transform the world for the kingdom of
God, and to stand up for those who
cannot stand for themselves.
Today, we are the largest private university in the state. We
have tens of thousands of alumni throughout Indiana. Over
the past 10 years, our physical presence has expanded to the
neighboring states of Kentucky, Ohio and Illinois; between
these education and service centers and our online education,
we have trained alumni who represent us in a wide range of
professions throughout the region.
This past year, a number of events illustrated the strong
relationship between IWU and its home state. Here are just a
few:
-IWU’s outgoing eighth president, Dr. Henry Smith, received
the Sagamore of the Wabash award from the office of the
Governor of Indiana, recognizing his many years of service to
the state. The Sagamore award is one of the highest honors for
an Indiana resident.
-IWU worked with the Indianapolis Colts on their annual
“Hometown Huddle” initiative to improve services for lowincome children in the Indy area. For this year’s event,
the partnership created a fitness room at the Mary Rigg
Neighborhood Center.
-In the wake of a devastating weather event that destroyed
homes all over Indiana, IWU sent a team to Kokomo to help
with tornado relief and recovery. After collecting food and
funds at IWU’s Chapel, the God’s Love Food Pantry was able
to take 14 boxes of food and $1,040 to help Kokomo residents
begin to rebuild their lives.
-Educational leaders from IWU are working with the
Association of Christian Schools International and teachers
from the Democratic Republic of the Congo on The Elephant
Project, an initiative designed to train Christian primary and
secondary school teachers in the Congo on ways to
integrate faith in Christ with education.
-This year, Wesley Seminary at IWU
took its first steps into embracing the
global church by launching its first
international cohort of students. The
Spanish-language cohort includes
students from throughout the
Hispanophone, who will take
classes both online and at a
special location in Bogotá,
Colombia.
Most of all, Wesleyans stand for
a global church of Jesus Christ:
“I look on all the world as my
parish,” wrote John Wesley; “thus
far I mean, that, in whatever part
of it I am, I judge it meet, right,
and my bounden duty, to declare
unto all that are willing to hear,
the glad tidings of salvation.”
UNIVERSITY
Athens, Beijing, Rome,
Alexandria, Baghdad, Oxford:
the academic quest for knowledge
that coalesced in these and other
cities has spread across the globe
with the rise of the university system,
the greatest tool the world has ever seen
for gathering and imparting knowledge.
Members of the Indiana
Wesleyan University community,
both Wesleyan and non-Wesleyan,
have carried these values with
them to the ends of the Earth. For
instance:
-Doulos, an IWU student organization,
has hosted several events to bring the campus
together to fight human trafficking. This past
year, Doulos participated in the END IT movement,
a worldwide effort touched off at the Passion 2012
conference bringing a wide range of groups and individuals
together to end human trafficking on Earth.
-In December 2013, Dr. Wright announced that IWU would
create the Office of Multicultural Enrichment “to give focused
leadership to Indiana Wesleyan’s goal of becoming a learning
community that reflects the cultural and racial diversity of
our society.” Diane McDaniel has been appointed the first
Vice President for Multicultural Enrichment and Employee
Development, a position that reports directly to the President
and has a place on the University’s Executive Council.
-IWU and the organization Joni and Friends have partnered to
create a course to educate students on human disability from
a Biblical perspective. The course, “Beyond Suffering,” is an
“intense examination of the biblical tenets of suffering, evil and
God’s sovereignty. Students examine their own beliefs, suffering
and future opportunities to heal and to affect the healing of
those around them.” Students taking the course have reported
its significant impact on their outlook and beliefs.
-Students and faculty from IWU offered presentations at the
“Logos in Oxford” conference last summer at Oxford University
in the United Kingdom. Students included Lindsey Blanton
and Kenneth Russell, and professors included Patrick Eby, Bart
Bruehler and Brian Clark.
This is the dream that a few men and women brought to life
in 1920. This is Marion College in the 21st century. This is
Indiana Wesleyan University.
The word university comes from the same
Latin root as the word universe. A Christ-centered
university must create an academic community that
reflects the whole of the community it aims to serve. As
a global university, we want a community that encompasses
God’s world. Here are just three examples of how we are
creating that community:
INDIANA WESLEYAN
UNIVERSITY
Highlights
OF THE FIRST
25
YEARS
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1988 - Marion College officially
becomes Indiana Wesleyan University
1996 - IWU offers
first online classes
1998 - John Wesley Honors
College established: IWU offers its
first online degree, an MBA
2001 - College of
Graduate Studies
established
2006 -Dr. Henry Smith
becomes IWU's eighth president
2003 - IWU opens its first
education center outside of
Indiana, in Cleveland, Ohio
2009 - Wesley Seminary at
IWU begins classes
2013 - Dr. David Wright
becomes IWU's ninth president
2014
2008 - IWU hires its first
provost, Dr. David Wright
2004 - IWU
begins its first
doctoral program,
in Organizational
Leadership
2012 - IWU establishes the
School of Health Sciences
2013 - IWU announces its
intention to purchase Wesley
Institute in Sydney, Australia
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NEW
NAME
SAME
MISSION
From the President (July 1988)
By Dr. James Barnes, President
Indiana Wesleyan University (1987–2006)
W
ith this issue of the Triangle, we enthusiastically
and proudly announce that on July 1, 1988,
Marion College changed its name to INDIANA
WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY. Overwhelming support
and endorsement for the change came from
faculty, students, college trustees, and a random
sampling of alumni, church, and community
leaders.
Why Indiana Wesleyan University? Let's look at each of the
individual components.
Indiana: Indiana Wesleyan is an Indiana-based institution
primarily serving Indiana and the Midwest. This change to
Indiana moves the University from identification with a small
community to that of a state and region.
Wesleyan: The inclusion of the term Wesleyan more accurately
reflects the institution's theological and denominational heritage
since its denominational sponsorship is by the Wesleyan Church.
University: With the advent of LEAP (Leadership Education for
the Adult Professional, a nontraditional program for adults, local
enrollment has increased from 1,050 in 1985 to almost 1,800
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From the President (Spring 2014)
By Dr. David Wright, President
Indiana Wesleyan University (2013-present)
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in 1988, and two additional master's degree programs have
been added. Thus, Indiana Wesleyan University currently offers
master's degrees in Ministerial Education, Community Health
Nursing, Management, and Business Administration (M.B.A.).
The name change to Indiana Wesleyan University signals a new
era in the life of the institution which has meant so much to all
of us. The new name mirrors exciting new curricula, enrollment
growth, campus development, and continually increasing quality
of faculty and academic programs.
came to Marion College in the early 1970s as a
“missionary kid” with a lot to learn. Forty years later,
it is my privilege to represent Indiana Wesleyan
University as both the institution’s leader and as a
grateful alumnus. Today I’m a college president, a lot
older, hopefully a little wiser, but still with a lot to
learn.
Indiana Wesleyan University has never run out of new things to
teach me. To my mind, the continuity between Marion College and
Indiana Wesleyan University is one of our institutional treasures. We
have a rich heritage. Though our name has changed, the spirit of the
institution, the dedication of our faculty and staff, the world-wide
network of our alumni, and the fidelity to our God-given mission,
should be recognizable to anyone who knew us in the Marion
College era.
We now become alumni and friends of an institution with a new
name and many exciting new developments. However, Indiana
Wesleyan University will continue the tradition of providing a
caring faculty, committed to quality education in a distinctly
Christian environment. Spiritual development will continue
as a primary institutional objective. While things all around us
change, at Indiana Wesleyan University "Putting First Things
First" will continue to be our goal. Of that you can be assured!
Still, it’s quite something to look back over the past 25 academic
years of being IWU and realize just how far we have come. God has
taken us far beyond the aspirations of those who sought to prod us
toward greater engagement with our home state and region, with the
global community, and with the world of higher education.
And so, I welcome you to a new, yet enduring, relationship: that
of alumni and friends of Indiana Wesleyan University.
Published July 1, 1988 edition of the Triangle
In essays like this one, Christian college presidents usually
like to reassure our alumni and friends, as I did above, that
our commitment to our heritage will never change. And as
long as I am president, by God’s grace, that will be true. But
for an institution with the word “Wesleyan” in its name, the
truth is that change itself is a trait inherited from our sacred
birthright of faith, holiness and social responsibility.
Throughout our own history, Marion College/Indiana
Wesleyan University has always sought to change and grow
to meet the challenges each new class of students will face as
they take up their life calling.
At IWU we are convinced that our ability to truly become
world changers begins with our willingness to let God
change us. After 25 academic years of IWU, you have my
promise that we will do all within our power to seize this
day for the glory of God. We will not abandon the call of
our heritage to become holy people, a godly community,
continually opening our minds and hearts to the
transforming work of God’s Spirit, to greater levels of vision
and innovation. We will do this so that God can use us to
make our world a better, more God honoring place, to the
glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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“I just thought I was doing enough when it came to my
Christianity,” she said. “I came to church, I tithed, I treated
people with respect, I served in the community; I did enough.”
She’d heard about Indiana Wesleyan
University. Owens liked the idea of
a degree program that let her work
full time. She wasn’t sure, though,
she was ready for a school where
people prayed in class.
“I just thought I was doing enough
when it came to my Christianity,”
she said. “I came to church, I tithed,
I treated people with respect, I
served in the community; I did
enough.”
She came anyway. Early on, some of
what she heard in religion courses
and in-class devotions intrigued her
and made her want to look deeper
into her faith.
I’M WALKING
IN MY PURPOSE
And around that time, Owens fell
right into the deep end.
“I had to take on the responsibility
of caring for my father,” she said.
Hazel Owens found grace at IWU, and took it with her when she left.
he thought of going back to college
wouldn’t leave Hazel Owens alone. It
bothered her that she hadn’t finished.
When she came to the Indianapolis West
Education Center for her second shot at a bachelor’s
degree, it was with something to prove.
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Owens had never been the type to leave something
unfinished.
She’d been a committed person at 8 years old,
when she gave her life to Christ at New Revelation
Baptist Church in Gary, IN. She’s always stayed
busy, and she’s always liked serving people.
“I've been volunteering since before I even knew
what volunteering was,” she said. “It was something
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With acute kidney failure and
chronic pancreatitis, he required
dialysis and constant attention, and
it was up to Owens to give it to him.
He lived in Elkhart, three hours
away. In the meantime, she still
had a full-time job and volunteer
commitments.
that was just in me…Growing up, I don't think
there's ever been a year where I didn't volunteer
or serve in the community in some way, shape or
form.”
But the first time she tried college, when she moved
to Indianapolis in 2001, she lost focus.
An adjunct professor named Edith
Barnett helped her.
“I...just partied and did everything I wasn't
supposed to do, was not focused on my studies and
ended up just really doing terrible.”
“That woman just poured into me,”
Owens said. “She made it seem like
regardless of what obstacles I face, I
can still do it. I can finish.”
She took two years off and worked. She was
comfortable. But comfortable wasn’t quite enough:
“I came to the conclusion that, ‘no, you moved
down for school and you never finished.’ ”
Later on, as her father needed
more help, Owens grew close to
her bachelor’s cohort: “And those
individuals helped me, they carried
me through. And just to be around
a group of people who have the
same common goal and genuinely
want to see each other succeed and
not try to tear each other down or
be cutthroat about it, it just made
it much easier (during) the most
difficult time.”
In April 2011, she became the first
member of her immediate family to
graduate from college. That night,
she made an announcement that
would have surprised even her a
short time before: she was going
back for her master’s degree.
“The bachelor’s was really to prove
to my family that I can do this, and
to myself,” she said. “The master’s
was like, ‘OK, I just want it.’”
While in graduate school, she
moved from a corporate job in
Indianapolis to a local nonprofit
dedicated to empowering young
girls to be “healthy, educated,
independent women.”
“Once I landed the job there, I was
just like, ‘Oh, wow, this is great.’ I
finally feel like I'm walking in my
purpose,” Owens said.
Today, besides everything else,
Owens blogs at cocoscouch.net,
with advice for “perfectly imperfect
women.”
More things started to click in
her life. She started serving at her
church, where she helps out with
the women’s ministry, the young
adult ministry and Sunday school.
“God has blessed me with the gift of
teaching, encouraging, and uplifting
people,” she writes. “He has placed
messages on my heart to share with
his daughters. My aim is to share
those messages and my story on this
platform to inspire, encourage, and
uplift women from all walks of life.”
She received a master’s degree in
human resource management in
August 2013.
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Vermilya is also working with a
consortium of CCCU schools, of which
IWU is a member, on a plan to launch
a private Christian college-prep high
school in China.
The planned school, Vermilya
explained, would be “staffed by both
Chinese and Americans, with the
understanding and the hope that it
would become kind of a feeder school
for IWU and other CCCU schools.”
EIGHT THOUSAND MILES
International students enrich IWU community
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Tan lived in a country where Christian
higher education meant Bible schools
to train pastors and missionaries. IWU
seemed like an ideal place, offering her
a chance to study in a Christ-centered
atmosphere.
She had met IWU alumni among the
missionaries who came to her church
and students who, as part of IWU’s
World Impact program, had made the
8,000-mile journey from Marion.
“One of my best friends from my church
at home was a missionary kid originally
from Marion,” Tan recalls. “She was two
years older, and she came back to go to
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school here. And I was like, ‘Hey, that'd
be neat! But that'd never happen.’ It was
kind of like a far-off dream.”
Today, Tan’s a junior in the John
Wesley Honors College, majoring in
international relations.
“Somehow things just worked out for
me to come. I was game for a new
experience, something different.”
Over 100 students attend the residential
campus as international students. They
are children of missionaries, foreign
students on F-1 visas and “third-culture”
kids who have one foot in American
culture and the other in their family's
culture. Global Engagement Office
Director, Dr. Jim Vermilya, is leading
a team committed to increasing their
numbers and influence on the residential
campus.
They can also help one another
adjust to life in the United States.
One avenue is through International
Student Orientation, which takes place
prior to the New Student Orientation
“THE STUDENTS WHO CAME
HAD NEVER BEEN TO THE
UNITED STATES BEFORE.
THEY HAVE HOPES AND
DREAMS OF GOING TO
COLLEGE IN THE U.S.”
TO INDIANA
rowing up in a Wesleyan
church in New Zealand,
Samantha Tan thought that
her dream of going to school
in a faraway place called
Marion, IN, was unrealistic.
ISA members can compare similarities
and differences between their home
culture and the IWU culture, Tan
explains. “Being able to know people
from the same areas of the world, like
‘Oh, you know this food? Oh, we call it
something different, but it's the same!’”
- JIM VERMILYA ON BEIJING VISTORS
The Global Engagement Office
sends students out from Marion to
experience the world through studyabroad programs and service-learning
opportunities; but recently their scope
has expanded to include international
student programs and intercultural
student services, inviting prospective
students from around the world to
experience IWU.
onto the campus. One such program
occurred last summer with 40 Chinese
students from two high schools in
Beijing .
“That came out of relationships we're
building with some schools in Beijing,”
Vermilya said. “The students who came
had never been to the United States
before. They have hopes and dreams of
going to college in the U.S.”
This fall, they will launch an English
as a Second Language (ESL) program
designed by Dr. Muchun Yin, Associate
Professor of TESOL (Teachers of English
to Speakers of Other Languages).
Currently, a special section of the English
120 class helps students strengthen their
English academic writing abilities, Yin
said.
In some ways, Vermilya says, the
program is like a two-week-long
campus visit day experience.
“We developed a program around
English tutoring and what we called
cultural immersion, which gave them
all kinds of opportunities to learn about
American culture and American college
life on a Christian college campus,” he
said.
The Global Engagement Office also
oversees summer programs to bring
international high school students
Working with Vermilya is Associate
Director of Admissions and
International Student Advisor, Tony
Stevens. Stevens has worked in
Admissions since 2003 and served as
advisor since 1996.
“I take students to the banks, to WalMart, to the emergency room,” Stevens
said. “We do what we can to make
them comfortable. I've asked people
for warm clothes for students who
didn't have them, or sheets for those
who needed them. It's a pretty caring
campus.”
Stevens works with the International
Students Association (ISA), created
to enhance community among
international students and expose them
to elements of American culture—from
Pacers games to laser tag. Tan is the ISA
vice president.
for all incoming students. The first
International Student Orientation took
place last fall.
“It was about building community and
getting students oriented,” Tan recalls.
“So they felt like they had a step up
in at least that area, even though they
didn't have a step up necessarily on the
culture. When new students came, they
were able to lend a hand in that way
while other students lent them a hand
in another way.”
For students like Tan, moving to the
United States has helped broaden their
perspective of the world.
“Any time you move away from where
you've called home for a long time,
you realize that ‘Oh, so not everyone in
the world does everything exactly the
same,’” Tan said.
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Blending the Love of Music with the Ministry of Healing
IWU’s new bachelor of music therapy degree is
off to a promising start
T
wenty-one students are enrolled in
the new bachelor of music therapy
degree, and the first full-time music
therapy faculty member is serving
them.
of Guy, and professors, Dr. Chris Lessly and Dr.
Lisa Dawson.
“God strongly prompted me through the nudging
of the Holy Spirit,” Dawson said. “I have an
undergraduate degree in therapy that was almost
a double major/minor in music, and then I went
on into music, obviously. And so I have a real
inclination towards the healing powers of music.
"I'm very excited to see where this
program can go," said Rebecca
Findley, who left a music therapy job with a
hospice care organization to join IWU, "and
excited to have another option for students who
are looking to get a Christian education and
pursue music therapy."
According to Dr. Todd Guy ‘84, Chair of the
Division of Music, IWU is only the second
evangelical Christian school to offer the major.
It’s a perfect fit, Guy believes, for an institution
with IWU’s mission, granting graduates entrance
to a growing job market with a variety of career
options that blend a love of music with the
ministry of healing.
“Music therapists can work in hospitals, nursing
homes, schools, churches, correctional facilities
and hospice,” Guy said. “Music therapists can
work with various population groups to help
individuals with emotional, physical, social and
spiritual problems.”
Conversations about the new degree started when
Guy returned to IWU to lead the Music Division.
The project took on renewed motivation a few
years ago in the hands of a task force comprised
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“There are documented cases of physical changes
that occur in the human body through the power
and the properties of music. Behavioral and
physical healing is very possible through music
therapy. And so, it is very needed!”
DR. LISA DAWSON
Music Division Professor
"Behavioral and physical
healing is very possible
through music therapy.
And so, it is very
needed!"
The program is accredited by the National
Association of Schools of Music and is seeking
accreditation from the American Music Therapy
Association. Dawson estimates that IWU could
award its first bachelor’s degree in Music Therapy
in 2016.
“It's been a long process, but God's been faithful,”
said Guy. “He's directed it, and we think it's been
worth it just to know what students are going
to be able to accomplish when they walk out of
here with that degree.”
FOR MORE INFORMATION
PLEASE CONTACT:
todd.guy@indwes.edu | 765.677.2150
A SPOKESPERSON
OF LOVE
When Ogechi Florence Uche learned that she and her family
would move to America, she couldn’t wait.
Uche is from southern Nigeria, a member of the Igbo tribe.
Her first name means “God’s time” in Igbo, and there’s a story
behind that.
“My mom…for 10 years, she was barren, and she could not have
children. And there came a point to where my father’s brothers
and relatives were like ‘get rid of this woman, she’s not doing
her job!’ That’s the primary thing in Nigeria, for a woman to be
there and have children for you, so your kin can continue. And
so, right before they were about to finalize kicking her out, she
had me.”
Inspired by her mother’s experience, Uche has decided to
devote her life to serving women in the reproductive process.
Attending an American high school at age 15, Uche had no
experience navigating American racial politics. Black kids
mocked her because of her Igbo accent; white kids considered
her “black.”
private Christian high school accepted her. She still found racial
factionalism frustrating: “It would always be like, ‘it’s us against
them.’ ”
At IWU, Uche (“Flo” to her friends) has found a multicultural
family in the Office of Intercultural Student Services. Uche is
a diversity coordinator (DC), one of 18 students assigned to
residence halls to address issues relating to cultural differences.
The other DCs have helped her shed some resentment from her
high school days. “It was very hard for me to forgive the people
who made fun of me,” she said.
“That transition was so hard. I don’t like looking back on it
sometimes,” she said.
Though she addresses issues of race and culture as a DC, Uche
sees her true mission as much broader.
As her English improved, the black clique at her mostly-white
“I’m more of a spokesperson of love,” she said.
IWU FRIENDS
G
A
Minis try
Journey
eneral Superintendent
Emeritus Robert and
Elizabeth “Lib” McIntyre have
traveled many roads together
since their marriage 60 years
ago, impacting countless lives
for God’s glory.
Robert, a member of the Marion
College Varsity Quartet, first hit the
ministry road riding in a 1937 Ford
that transported him and his fellow
musicians through five states.
After receiving a bachelor’s degree
in religion in the spring of 1944, his
first appointment was as pastor of a
small church in Ohio. The path he
traveled led him to election as a general
superintendent, the highest office in the
denomination.
After his retirement in 1988, McIntyre
served four years as a special assistant
to former Indiana Wesleyan University
President Jim Barnes.
McIntyre’s beloved traveling companion
for 60 years has been the former
Elizabeth Norman, a woman who
everyone knows simply as “Lib.” They
were married one year after she earned
a bachelor of science degree. At the time
of their marriage, Robert was a widower
with four children – the youngest
of them 1 year old. Their marriage
produced a fifth child.
Robert, who is 91, and Elizabeth, who
is 90, live in a condominium just off the
IWU campus.
The McIntyres remain fully engaged
in the life of IWU – in particular
Wesley Seminary. The couple recently
established a life estate by adding IWU’s
name to the title of their condominium.
After their passing, proceeds from
the sale of the condo will be used to
establish scholarships for seminary
students.
“We have always had an interest
in Christian education, especially
theological education,” Robert said. “We
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are pleased to support the IWU vision
that led to the establishment of the
seminary.”
Dr. Wayne Schmidt, Vice President of
the seminary, said the McIntyres have
been examples of life-long learners who
serve faithfully and give generously.
“This scholarship will not only remind
recipients of the couple’s gift but also
of their worthy walk as believers and
ministry leaders,” Schmidt said. “Dr.
and Mrs. McIntyre are enthusiastic
supporters of Wesley Seminary, not
because of the institution but because
they are so passionate about its purpose
– fully equipping men and women
for pastoral ministry. Their gift is an
investment in what they believe in.”
The McIntyre family also has a memorial
education scholarship in the Northwest
District of The Wesleyan Church, where
Robert’s father and brother were pastors.
Robert McIntyre is a true child of
the Wesleyan Methodist and Pilgrim
Holiness churches, which merged in
1968 to create The Wesleyan Church.
“I was born in a Pilgrim Holiness
parsonage in Bethlehem, PA, but became
a Wesleyan Methodist when my parents
moved to Aberdeen, S.D.,” he said.
At the time of the merger, McIntyre
was elected as General Editor of The
Wesleyan Church, and then was named
one of the four general superintendents
of the denomination in 1973.
McIntrye served as president of the
National Association of Evangelicals from
1984 to 1986, and was on the National
Advisory Council of the American Bible
Society from 1984 to 1988. At various
times he was on the boards of trustees of
Marion College, Houghton College and
Asbury Theological Seminary. He has
honorary doctorates from four colleges.
While still active, the McIntyres noted in
their 2013 Thanksgiving/Christmas letter
that they are “slowing down a bit.”
TWO
EASY WAYS TO
c r e at e
LIFETIME INCOME
AND
SAVE ON TAXES
1. A CHARITABLE GIFT ANNUITY funded with
your low-performing stock or CDs can
provide you with a charitable deduction and
fixed payments for life. Rates are based on
your age and a portion of your payment
could be tax free.
2. A CHARITABLE REMAINDER TRUST is another
way to receive a tax deduction and
payments. When you transfer your
appreciated stock or real estate
to fund a charitable remainder trust, you
can also avoid capital gains tax on the sale of
your assets. The trust will sell the assets tax
free and then use the invested proceeds to
pay you for the rest of your life. And your
payments could potentially grow with
growth in the trust assets.
To learn more about charitable life income
plans and their benefits, please contact the
Office of Advancement by phone or email.
765-677-2106 | LEGACY@INDWES.EDU
“Bob’s last four speaking engagements have been
funerals,” they wrote. “Lib keeps busy cooking,
canning, sewing and baking. She just completed
another quilt.”
I N D I A N A W E S L E Y A N U N I V E R S I T Y 1 9
SCHOONMAKER
SELECTED AS CFO
COMMUNITY
HONORS MARTIN
LUTHER KING, JR.
Indiana Wesleyan University is delighted to receive a $3 million grant
from Lilly Endowment Inc. as part of the Endowment's Initiative to
Promote Opportunities Through Educational Collaborations. The
initiative aims to help Indiana colleges and universities pursue activities
that improve the job prospects of college graduates in the state.
"We are extremely grateful for Lilly Endowment’s grant," said President David Wright. "These
funds will enable Indiana Wesleyan University to make it possible for our graduates to find not
only jobs, but careers, and to become leaders in improving our great state."
IWU will use the grant to implement initiatives that prepare its students for the workforce and
help young Indiana businesses succeed and grow.
HOOSIER 10K SERVES HIGH-NEED
INDIANA RESIDENTS
High-need Indiana residents can now earn a four-year college degree with only $10,000 of
student loan debt through the Hoosier 10K Plan that was announced in October.
The Hoosier 10K Plan, created for the residential campus, is designed to serve Indiana
residents with the highest need, who expect no financial contributions from their families and
are willing to aggressively pursue a variety of options for financial aid. The plan begins with
the Fall 2014 freshman class.
The Hoosier 10K Plan is the first of a series of steps IWU is taking to fulfill its mission to
offer a top-notch education in a Christ-centered environment to students in Indiana and
throughout the world.
FOR MORE INFORMATION EMAIL: DANNY.SOLMS@INDWES.EDU
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TELESALE
CAMPUS
R AI S E S
Nancy Schoonmaker
will become the next
Vice President for
Business Affairs
and Chief Financial
Officer.
Schoonmaker
has served as Vice
President and Chief
Financial Officer at Cornerstone University
2008. She holds a bachelor’s degree from
the McIntire School of Commerce at the
University of Virginia and an MBA from
Cornerstone University. She is a licensed
Certified Public Accountant and has served
as an accountant with KPMG in Washington,
DC, and Manager for Financial Reporting
at Intellicom in Rockville, MD. Prior to
her position at Cornerstone University, she
served as Director of Financial Services then
Director of Operations at Calvary Church,
a large evangelical church in Grand Rapids,
MI. Schoonmaker has been married to her
husband, Renny, since 1989. Two of their
children attend IWU.
A community-wide celebration to honor
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was
hosted on the main campus on January
17. A 120-voice choir comprised of IWU
students, faculty, staff and members of
the Grant County community offered
an evening of gospel music. The concert
commemorated Dr. King’s 85th birthday.
$3 MILLION GRANT FROM
LILLY ENDOWMENT INC.
TARGETS GRADUATE JOBS
DIGITAL
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
HISTORIAN WINS 2013
ALDERSGATE PRIZE
Dr. Catherine Brekus, professor of
American religious history in the
University of Chicago’s Divinity
School, is the recipient of the 2013
Aldersgate Prize for her book,
Sarah Osborn’s World: The Rise of
Evangelical Christianity in Early
America.
Schoonmaker emerged as a finalist from
a highly qualified group of applicants.
Following extensive campus interviews and
personal conversations, it was clear that her
strengths in financial management, team
leadership, interpersonal skills and strong
mission fit make her an outstanding choice.
The John Wesley Honors College
awards the Aldersgate Prize each
year to celebrate the outstanding
achievement of an author whose
scholarly inquiry yields a broad
and integrative analysis of life’s
complexities and sheds fresh light
on ultimate questions that enliven
historic Christian conceptions of
human flourishing.
$54,220
COMING SOON
The Next Generational Digital Campus is a new
suite of integrated online learning tools designed
to encourage new learning opportunities. The
first wave of students and faculty to use the
system begins in March. This initiative will
establish a new digital learning space for IWU
faculty and students that will include:
A new unified portal environment that will
provide Single Sign-On capabilities (users will
only have to log in once) to all major applications
and personalized information
A new Learning Management System (changing
from Blackboard to LearningStudio)
Redeveloped online courses with new digital
content items like simulations, videos and case
studies
Ebooks embedded in the course and delivered
to non-residential students in a very robust and
modern e-reader called Coursesmart.
New Athletics App
Now Available
The first athletic app for IWU
Wildcat sports is now available
for download on iPhones and
iPads in the App Store.
The free athletic app is another
venue for fans to follow Wildcat
athletics. The app is a userfriendly device that contains
headline and game recaps, team
pages, live video, live stats,
social media, schedules, rosters
and more.
From a field of nearly 80
nominations, the selection
committee chose Sarah Osborn’s
World: “Brekus’s study offers
a penetrating reconstruction
and analysis of early American
evangelicalism’s encounter
with the intellectual currents
of Enlightenment Europe in an
elegantly written biography of a
long-forgotten female religious
leader.”
app,” said Director of Athletics
Mark DeMichael. “It is going
to be a great service to our fans
and families of athletes. It will
enable them to have easy access
to all of the information and
products that are available on
our website which will be easily
available now on the iPhone
and iPad.”
Fans can find the app by
searching "IWU Wildcats" in the
App Store.
The 2014 Indiana
Wesleyan University
Telesale raised $54,220.
The Telesale aired live
January 31 through
February 2 from the
studios of WIWU-TV
on the IWU Marion
residential campus.
The three-night telecast
generated $50,212 from
the sales of merchandise
and from sponsorships.
An additional $4,008
came from the online
auction.
The first Telesale aired
in January 1996. The
event has raised more
than $1.6 million over
the years for student
scholarships. Local
businesses and other
friends of the university
donate the merchandise
that is sold.
“I am really excited about the
release of the IWU Wildcats
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I N D I A N A W E S L E Y A N U N I V E R S I T Y 2 1
WILDCAT ATHLETICS
“We’re thrilled with the performances,” said Head Coach John
Foss. “We weren’t even ranked and finished 21st. The guys gave
it everything they had and were passing people all the way to the
end of the race. That was a huge difference and probably brought
us from 25th or 26th to 21st in the last 1,000-meters.”
"It is one of
those teams
that you just
put in the book
and remember
it. This 2013
team is just
so special and
I will never
forget them
because of the
unique pieces
of this team.”
A TEAM
FOR THE
BOOKS
I
t was another great season for the volleyball team
as they made the trip to Sioux City for the national
championship for the third straight season.
IWU won its second straight Crossroads
League regular season championship and third
consecutive Crossroads League tournament title. The season
ended with a 30-12 record.
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CANDACE MOATS
HEAD COACH
LADY WILDCATS
END THEIR
SEASON AT THE
VOLLEYBALL
NAIA NATIONAL
CHAMPIONSHIP
AUSTIN CONROY NAMED MEN’S GOLF
COACH
Former IWU golfer Austin Conroy '10 will bring an air of
familiarity to the position as he has been named the new men’s
golf coach.
“I feel like this is an incredible opportunity God has presented me
to do something I love,” said Conroy. “I have been blessed with
a talent and passion for the game of golf and especially helping
others through the game of golf. I am excited to get back to
Indiana Wesleyan in order to further the mission of the university
through the golf program and my student-athletes.”
Conroy is one of the most successful golfers in program history.
He is just one of two Wildcats to ever be named a NAIA Men’s
Golf All-American. Conroy was selected for the honor during his
senior year with the Wildcats.
The Kansas City native succeeds Steve Evans who led the men’s
golf team for the past 13 seasons. Evans resigned during the fall
season to take a position in the health care field.
In addition to coaching, Conroy will be an agent with Renbarger
Insurance and Financial Services, Inc. in Marion.
MEN’S SOCCER ADVANCES TO NAIA
NATIONAL TOURNAMENT FOR FIRST TIME
Unseeded IWU dropped a heartbreaking 2-1 result on December
2 to No. 2-seed Lindsey Wilson, KY in the NAIA National
Championship Round of 16 in Montgomery, AL.
MEN’S CROSS COUNTRY FINISHES 21 ST AT
NAIA NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP
After winning its NAIA National Championship Opening
Round match at Bryan, TN, IWU volleyball went 1-2 in Pool
C at the final site. IWU lost 3-1 to No. 3-ranked Biola, CA,
defeated No. 10-ranked Lindsey Wilson, KY by a 3-2 score,
then needed a win against No. 15 Dordt (Iowa) in the final
pool play match to advance, but fell 3-1. The season ended at
the NAIA National Championship on December 4 in Sioux
City, Iowa.
The men’s cross country team had many great individual races en
route to a 21st place finish at the NAIA National Championship
on November 23 at Rim Rock Farm in Lawrence, KS.
Four Wildcats either ran new or tied personal records in the final
race of the season. The Wildcats were 21st in the 32-team field
despite entering the national championship meet unranked.
The Wildcats outplayed the Blue Raiders much of the game and
earned the tying mark in the 76th minute on a header by Sam
Kane. But the Blue Raiders scored the game-winning goal with
just 2:06 remaining in regulation for the 2-1 final score.
“I’m very proud of our guys,” Head Coach Mark Castro said. “I
thought we came out with a good game plan and did a good job
of getting information on Lindsey Wilson. For the most part we
executed our game plan pretty well. But at this point, everybody
in the final 16 are the top teams and it’s just a matter of inches
and it’s a matter of the right execution at the right time.”
I N D I A N A W E S L E Y A N U N I V E R S I T Y 2 3
alumni
1930s
Marian (Tescher) Noggle '35 celebrated
her 99th birthday October 11th!
1950s
Elizabeth “Libby” (Norman) McIntyre
’52 celebrated her 90th birthday December
22nd!
1960s
Ella Mary (Rumppe) Poore '63 received
“The Good Samaritan” award from
International Church of the Nazarene for
developing and directing The Nazarene
Parish Nursing Inc. for 15 years.
Mark Abbott '65 published “A Story of
Beginnings”, a book on Genesis 1-3.
1980s
Jim Rathbun '87 is the first Director of
Generous Living for The Wesleyan Church.
Dr. Eddy Shigley '87 is the Kern Ministry
Program Director, IWU.
1990s
Jamie Miles '90 opened a photography
series titled The Cataclysmus Cycle in
Beard Arts Center, IWU. Lila (Turner)
Chandler '91 chronicled the global history
of the legendary missions-minded, multispecialty physicians group Southwestern
Medical Clinic. Dr. Barbara Gurnell '91
was ordained as Minister of the Gospel on
November 24, 2013 David Thomas '93
is the Chief Deputy at Jefferson County
Sheriff’s Office, Madison, IN. Ellen
(Williams) Cavanaugh '95 is the Chief
Entertainment Officer at Your Event Sitters,
LLC, West Chester, OH. Sean VerLee
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for sharing personal and professional
accomplishments. Submissions are edited for
length, clarity and style standards.
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OH B A BY!
| FUTURE ALUMNI|
DOWN THE AISLE
'96 was honored with a Better Life award
from his company, Regions Bank, for
showing exemplary character and powerful
community influence. Amy PocaiMajewski '98 received the Paris-Bourbon
County Chamber of Commerce Teacher of
the Year Award for Maysville Community and
Technical College Jessica Ives '99 created
a foundation called the Pediatric Arachnoid
Cyst Foundation. She is also the Youth
Services Bureau Coordinator for Dorchester
County Health Department.
2000s
Shannon Anderson '00 published a
children’s book, I am Not a Pirate. Emily
Vannatter '00 is owner of ElderCare
Solutions of Central Indiana, LLC in
Franklin, IN. Bob Mondor '01 is on the
Ethics Panel at American Electric Power
and will be travelling to the Philippines
in the spring to finalize the adoption
of his son. Erin Robinson '01 is the
teacher of Young Adults with Autism in
the Muskegon Area Intermediate School
District. Amie (Billington) Johnson '02
released her first book, The Valley Without
Her. Nicole (Richardson) Amonette '04
is the Associate Director of Undergraduate
Recruitment at IUPUI School of Science.
Sara (Johnson) Helmuth '05 is employed
by 5 Star Investment Group, LLC. Destin
Haas '06 has been appointed as the
Superintendent of Schools for the North
Newton School Corporation in Morocco, IN.
Miguel Hampton '07 as the Owner/CEO
of F5 Enterprises, LLC DBA Sancho Miguel’s
Salsa in Clark County, IN, was awarded
the Minority Small Business Champion of
the Year by the Southeast Indiana Small
Business Development Center. Betty
(Brandenburg) Yundt '07 is being profiled
and celebrated as one of 50 teachers in
the book American Teacher: Heroes in the
Classroom by Katrina Fried. Zachary
Blackwell '08 was recently promoted to
Activities Director at Mitchell Manor Nursing
Home in Mitchell, IN. Cody Brackenstoe
'08 is a CRNA at Sacred Heart Hospital since
graduating from Geisinger Medical Center
nurse anesthesia school in 2013. Will
Bach '09 was promoted to Vice President
of Investments and Senior Investment
Management Consultant at The Carillon
Group of Raymond James, Miamisburg,
OH. Candace (Price) Finnell '09 is the
Administrative Assistant to Dr. Jo Ann Lyon,
General Superintendent of The Wesleyan
Church in Fishers, IN. Mynetta Leeth '09
received a promotion as the new Human
Resources and Payroll Manager with Bath
Creek Estates Health and Rehabilitation
Center, a Saber Health Care Group in
Cuyahoga Falls, OH. Deborah Yoder '09
is the Honors Geometry Teacher at Concord
High School in Elkhart, IN.
2010s
Linda Bruno '11 received her MBA from
the University of Florida in April 2013. She
develops and conducts training workshops
on leadership and a variety of other people
skills. Scott Cichra '11 is the Director of
Property Management of Emeritus Senior
Living in Seattle, WA. Megan (Reigard)
Cox '11 is the children’s pastor at New
Journey Community Church in Wabash,
IN. Kevin Hoskins '11 is the Sergeant
of Criminal Investigations at the Office of
Inspector General in Austin, TX. Garner
Wireman '11 owns a company called
one4one. The mission of one 4one is to
clothe poverty, feed hunger and give
water through the purchases of one4one’s
eco-friendly clothing and bags. Mallory
Smith '12 was promoted to Patient Access
Manager at Parallongur, Macon, GA. Miles
Wright '12 is now studying for his Masters
of Divinity at the Master’s Seminary, Sun
Valley, CA. Nicole (Chromey) Wright '12
is the Social Media Manager at Pepperdine
University in CA. Michael Allison '13
is the IT Project Manager for The Dept. of
Veteran Affairs. Brett Dicks '13 is the
CPO Staff Accountant at Estep Burkey
Simmons, LLC Certified Public Accountants
& Consultants. Rachel Feather '13 and
Janna Peterson '13 are teaching at the
Lippo Village Campus at SPH International
in Jakarta, Indonesia. Denzil Oliver '13 is
the Quality Control Manager at Associated
Materials Inc. in Akron, OH.
01
02
03
04
05
01
Ruth Nicole Cully was born
October 27, 2013 to Thomas ‘10
and Olivia (Lewton) Cully ’10.
04
Eleanor (Ella) Kaylynn Rose was
born September 16, 2013 to Devin
’05 and Sarah (Dye) Rose ‘05.
Mallory Ann Bellinger was born
October 30, 2013 to Dan ’06 and
Stephanie (Riggs) Bellinger ’06.
02
Mikayla Joy Johnson was born
May 30, 2013 to Jeremy ’01 and
Amber (Heltibridle) Johnson ’01.
05
Noah Marshall Smith was born
October 17, 2013 to Martha Marie
and Eddie Smith ‘01.
Henry Aaron Shaffer was born
May 18, 2013 to David and
Melissa (Masterson) Shaffer ’07.
03
Tedy James Matthew Richardson
was born March 28, 2012 and then
welcomed May 24, 2012 into the
arms of Nathan ’03 and Jenny
(Steiner) Richardson ’04.
Thomas Bach was born August
19, 2013 to Katie and Will Bach
’09 .
Analeigh Vea Gurley was born
July 25, 2013 to Daniel and Sarah
(Dainsberg) Gurley ’07.
Andy ’98 and Alicia
Maggard were married on
October 6, 2013.
| living memorials | Donations have been given
Living Memorials provide an opportunity for people to make a donation to Indiana Wesleyan University in memory
of or in honor of special people in their lives. The following Living Memorials have been received in recent months.
| In Memory Of |
Elizabeth Finley
Mary Ann Albert
Sam and Esther Norris
Steve and Suzanne Smith
Clara Goodman
Reese Anderson
Bob and Elaine Wing
Anna Marie Anderson
Rev. Frank Harris Sr.
David Bernhardt
Frank and Mabel Harris
Sam and Esther Norris
Rev. Busta BrownJanette Leach
Robert Leach
Hilda Clarke
Donald E. Martin
Lois Turner Dees
Terry and Debra Hobbs
David and Kristin Dimmich
Naomi Martin
Dr. Paul Faulkenberry
Terry and Debra Hobbs
Ethel Higgins
Queenie Norris
Sam and Esther Norris
Lloyd Poe
R. Lavonne Poe
Gene Sigworth
Darrell and Susan Sigworth
Harold Sigworth
Darrell and Susan Sigworth
Rachel Sigworth
Darrell and Susan Sigworth
Jane Stehno
Edward Stehno, III
Duane Thompson
Hilda Clarke
Patricia Troyer
Central Noble Community School Corporation
Sturgis Hospital
Catherine Wing
Bob and Elaine Wing
Steven ’13 and Jaclyn
(Roorbach) Gidley ’12
were married on June 15,
2013.
| In Honor Of |
Winsett CharlesDonald GrantDr. Marvin HindsMr. and Mrs. Ron StoneDr. David Wright
Rex Collins
Brandon Stanley Hilda Clarke
Hilda Clarke
Hilda Clarke
Marie Welch
Hilda ClarkeJohn Heavilin David Hinds
Dawn Hobson Hilda Clarke
Hilda Clarke
Priscilla Peters
Hilda Clarke
Trevor ’13 and Dana
(Runyan) Clark ’13 were
married on June 1, 2013.
| In Memoriam |
David Durish '92 died January 26
Connie Briggs Fultz '94 died September 26
Chelsea Rethlake '12 died September 29
Donald Fisher '39 died October 28
Donald Martin '43 died October 30
Adena Seguine Holsinger '48 died November 26
Mary Hicks Albert '62 died November 27
Wilma Pearson '80 died December 4
Kathryn Betz Howlett '38 died December 13
Kelley Erb '16 died December 20
2 5 F A L L 2 0 1 3 T R I A N G L E
Living Memorial donations may be:
Mailed to:
Indiana Wesleyan University
Office of Advancement
4201 South Washington Street
Marion, Indiana 46953-4974
Called into:
765.677.1439
Made online:
indwes.edu/University-Relations/Giving
alumni@indwes.edu
I N D I A N A W E S L E Y A N U N I V E R S I T Y 2 5
STUDENT
CULTURE
IWU
FROM
THE
DESK
Dear IWU Family and Friend s,
CELEBRATE
SNOW DAYS!
In a rare occurance, the Marion residential
campus closed campus on January 5th and
6th due to snow and frigid temperatures.
STUDENTS RE-RING IN
THE NEW YEAR AT THE
CAMPUS WIDE REBASH
CELEBRATION AFTER
CHRISTMAS BREAK
debt for high-n eed Indian a
I am so excited about IWU's new Hoosie r 10K Plan to reduce
manda te as a Christ -center ed
residen ts. I believe that initiati ves like this are central to our
academ ic comm unity.
's rising genera tion. In
Studen t debt has becom e a trillion -dollar burden upon the nation
in debt, and those who did
Indian a alone, 64% of studen ts in the class of 2012 gradua ted
similar nation wide.
gradua ted with an averag e debt of $27,88 6. The numbe rs are
qualif ying studen ts to earn a
The plan, which you can read about in this magazi ne, will allow
debt.
loan
t
four-ye ar college degree with only $10,00 0 of studen
offer such an educat ion, but
As I wrote on my blog late last year, “ We are called not only to
possib le to make educat ion
way
to offer it to as many studen ts as we can. We must find every
ble cost.”
accessi
and
availab le to the broade st numbe r of studen ts at a reason able
OF THE
PRESIDENT
| IWU STUDENTS |
WHAT ARE YOU MOST LOOKING FORWARD
TO AS YOU START THE NEW SEMESTER?
But we could not hope of doing this alone.
ts seekin g assista nce to
IWU can offer the Hoosie r 10K Plan and other option s for studen
small army of men and women
achiev e their educat ional goals becaus e of the genero sity of a
gifts over the years. I have met
throug h whom God has blessed us with many great financi al
Indian a Wesley an Univer sity
many of you and are proud to call you friends of mine and of
year to an annual "presid ent's
For a long time, we have devote d one issue of the Triang le each
to honori ng those donors
pages
several
s
report " which recaps the previo us year and devote
sity possib le. This year,
Univer
an
Wesley
a
who come alongs ide us to make the work of Indian
have chosen to place
we
and
issues,
le
Triang
we have shifted to a new model of four "regula r"
g a specifi c
profilin
issue
every
in
pages
the list of donors online . We will also spend a few
in a special
IWU
d
touche
has
ces
resour
of
and
individ ual or family whose genero sity of spirit
way.
connec tion to IWU. You are a
I want to thank each and every reader of the Triang le for their
Please pray for us as we
family.
blessin g to me and to the entire Indian a Wesley an Univer sity
us.
before
set
enter 2014, that we may stay faithfu l to the missio n God has
"These semester I am really
looking forward to Fusion.
It is such an awesome
experience to see a bunch
of teenagers being filled
with the Holy Spirit. It is
also fun to interact with
them and have them live
with us for the weekend.
AND, I hear Switchfoot will
be the band for this year's
event...which is a HUGE
bonus!"
"I'd say the thing I'm most
looking forward to are
the things at IWU that are
'unplanned' per say. I truly
enjoy the planned events
like basketball games, Mr.
Wildcat, Crema, FNL and
several others. However,
I like the spontaneous
moments of fun, community
and fellowship that happen.
Those are the times that
make the memories in my
life at IWU."
"As a senior art student I
am looking forward to the
senior exhibits that will be
displayed around campus. It
is a time to see fellow artists'
unqiue visions come to life
through their work and an
opportunity to celebrate the
growth that has occurred
throughout our four years
here."
ABIGAIL MARAUGHA
JUNIOR
KATIE LEHMAN
SOPHOMORE
MOE LAUCHERT
SENIOR
JEREMY SHARP
I took pictures for The
Sojourn and covered
the snow days. Slept in
everyday. Spent time
with friends.
SARA
MAKHOFFMAN
I did some reading.
Stayed inside most of
the time. Got to watch
some movies with the
girls on my floor.
McConn's Most Popular Winter Drink
Gratef ully,
HOW DID IWU
STUDENTS SPEND
THEIR SNOW DAYS?
T H E LO N DO N F O G :
A sweet and rich taste created by a blend of our vanilla chai, white chocolate and English
toffee nut syrup topped with steamed milk.
DR. DAVID WRIG HT '77
PRESI DENT
MISSION
S T AT E M E N T
Indiana Wesleyan University is a
Christ-centered academic community
committed to changing the world
by developing students in character,
scholarship and leadership.
26WINTER 2014 TRIANGLE
WE ARE
NEW
thankful
FOR EVERY DONOR
TO IWU
The entire list of those who
support annually is listed on
our website at:
indwes.edu/donors
! Trivia
Wings and Tots has
moved into the
Piazza replacing
Freshens Frozen
Yogurt.
63%
In the great rivalry between
the IWU Wildcats and the
Taylor Trojans over the
course of the last 7 years,
IWU tops Taylor in all but
one sport.
KAYLA
ANNARINO
On the snow days I
took time to put my
syllabi in my planner
and watched movies.
IWU VS. TAYLOR 94-55-1
OVERALL ATHLETICS RECORD
THE SOJOURN, JEREMY SHARP
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Marion, Indiana 46953-4974
Days
VISIT
SPRING SEMESTER
Friday, April 4
General Visit Day
(includes optional Life Calling Workshop)
Friday, April 11
General Visit Day with
a Spotlight on Juniors and Sophomores
S UM M ER
Friday, May 9
Friday, June 20
Friday, July 25
(with Thursday evening social)
ALL IT TAKES IS
JUST ONE
VISIT
CU STOM VIS ITS
GE N ER A L VI S I T DAYS
S POT L I G HT DAYS
are tailored to meet your specific interests.
Let us know your needs and schedule with
at least 10 days notice, and we’ll design a
specialized visit itinerary. These are available
most school days except for General Visit Days.
showcase our more than 80 academic majors
and give you the chance to experience our full
community. The General Visit Day is a great
option for your first visit to IWU.
concentrate on introducing you to a
specific academic division or interest.
If you know what you plan to study and want to
learn as much as possible about your program,
this day is for you.
Schedule a campus visit at indw.es/visitIWU or by calling Admissions at 866.468.6498